David R. Hawkins - The Eye of the I

ALSO BY DAVID R. HAWKINS, M.D., PH.D.

Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self

Along the Path to Enlightenment

Letting Go

Healing and Recovery

Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man

Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality

Transcending the Levels of Consciousness:

The Stairway to Enlightenment

Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference

I: Reality and Subjectivity

Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants

of Human Behavior

Dialogues on Consciousness and Spirituality

Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and Calibration of

the Levels of Human Consciousness

Orthomolecular Psychiatry (with Linus Pauling)

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Copyright 2001 by David R. Hawkins

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Straight and narrow is the path

Waste no time.

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

At a young age, the totality and immensity of mans suffering revealed itself spontaneously as a massive, limitless comprehension. It was a shocking experience that resulted in a dedication to the relief of human suffering by all the means availablescience,philosophy, spirituality, neurochemistry, medicine, psychoanalysis, humor, psychiatry, teaching, and healing. The greatest modality of all, however, was given as a gift, and it is this understanding that is capable of healing the very basis of human suffering.

By grace, it is shared with the world with the hope that it will be the catalyst that dissolves some of the sources of human pain and suffering.

This endeavor is dedicated to being a servant of the Lord and therefore, of all mankind. It is with gratitude that the fit that was given is shared. The inspiration to write of what is contained herein came from the joy on the faces of those who heard the speaking of these things. It is by these writings and conversations that their love is returned.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The scope of this work is immense. It includes not only a detailed, subjective report of very advanced states of spiritual consciousness traditionally called enlightenment, but, for the first time, it correlates and recontextualizes spiritual information in such a manner as to make it comprehensible to reason and the intellect.

This correlation between science and spirituality represents a cohesive integration between the linear and the nonlinear dimensions. By transcending the opposites, the author resolves the ages-old, seemingly irresolvable conflict and impasse between science and religion, between materiality and spirituality, and between ego and spirit. This resolution then clarifies unresolved mysteries and dilemmas that have been with mankind throughout history. With the expansion of consciousness afforded by this work, questions answer themselves and truth becomes self-evident.

The style of presentation takes the reader back and forth from the linear to the nonlinear domains until, to ones surprise, the incomprehensible becomes not only comprehensible but also actually obvious.

The calibrated level of consciousness of those who have been exposed to this material has been experimentally documented and has shown considerable elevation and advancement. Power accomplishes without effort what force cannot do for it goes where force cannot follow.

This book is written for both the self and the Self of the reader. Although the traditional great obstacle to enlightenment called transcending the opposites of duality and nonduality may sound obscure, by the time one has finished the book, this critical awareness is self-resolving.

The material is presented in four main sections:

I. Description of the Subjective States of Spiritual Awareness

II. The Spiritual Pathway

III. The Pathway to Enlightenment Through Understanding the Nature of Consciousness.

IV. Lectures, dialogues, interviews, and group discussions with a great variety of spiritual students and groups in various countries.

Because of the multiplicity of groups and presentations, at first glance some of the material in the book seems repetitious. However, it is re-presented deliberately because each time it is presented in a different context and in a different sequence of questions and answers. Each re-presentation reveals additional subtleties.

Whereas, in 1985, eighty-five percent of the worlds population calibrated below the level of Integrity (200), that has now dropped significantly to seventy-eight percent. Research indicates that this is due to an overall advance in spiritual awareness.

The reported material is unique in that the author is neither an ecclesiastic, nor a religionist, nor a theologian but instead has been a clinician with extensive experience in education and science, medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and research, as well as clinical and scientific writing. He is described as having been accomplished, successful, and talented in many fields. At the time of the advent of his sudden enlightenment, he had the largest psychiatric clinical practice in New York City.

Also unique were the intense spiritual experiences that began in early childhood, recurred in adolescence, and burst forth overwhelmingly during middle life. This caused his retreat to seclusion for a period of years and the final research into the nature of consciousness, which led to